Head-rest for car-seats



(No Modl.)

'W. B. TAYLOR.

1 HEAD BEST FOR OAR SEATS. No. 283,538. Patented Aug. 21, 1883.

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WILLIAM BELL TAYLOR, OF \VALTHAM, MASSACHUSETTS.

HEAD-REST FOR CAR-SEATS.

SIEGIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 283,533, dated August 21, 1883.

Application filed April 23,1883. (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern:

Beit known that I, WILLIAM BELL TAY- LOR, of Naltham, in the county of Middlesex and State of lvlassaehusetts, have invented certain Improvements in Head-Rests for Car- Seats, of which the following is a specification.

This invention has for its object to provide an improved head-rest adapted to be applied to and supported by the back of a carseat, and ail'ord an easy support for the head of the person sitting therein.

The invention consists in a stout metal rod bent to form a marginal frame or support for a cushion or pillow attached thereto, and having its ends formed to bestride the upper edge of the seat-back and support said cushion or pillow in a position elevated above the back, as I will now proceed to describe. 1

Of the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, Figure 1 represents an end View of aca-r-seat back provided with my improved attachment. Fig. 2 represents a perspective View of the attachment removed.

The same letters of reference indicate the same parts in all the figures.

In carrying out my invention I take a stout rod, of steel or other suitable-metal, and bend the same centrally, so as to form a marginal frame, a, of an inverted-U shape. I then bend the rod laterally at the lower ends of the frame a, as shown at 2 2, then upwardly, as shown at 3 3, then backwardly, as shown at 4 4, and then downwardly, as shown at 5 5. The lower ends of the frame abear against the front surface of the seat-back of The bent offset the portions 3 3 from the frame a, so that the portions 3 3 also bear against'the front surface of the seat-back. The bent portions 4. 4 extend over the upper edge of the seat-back, and the portions 5 5 bear against the rear surface of the seat-back.

To the frame a, I attach apillow or cushion, d, composed of any suitable upholstery material, and preferably formed to cover said frame, as shown in the drawings.

It will be seen that when the attachment is in place on the seat-back the cushion (1 projects above the back,with its front surface about in line with the front surface of the back, so that the cushion forms virtually acontinuation of the back, and affords an easy support for the head of the occupant of the seat. The elasticity of the metal rod permits the frame a. to yield sufficiently to afford ease to the recliner.

The attachment, havingno connection with the seat back excepting that afforded by the .an opposite direction at the lower ends of said frame, as at 2 2, then extended upwardly, as at 3 3, from the laterally-curved portions, then bent backwardly, as at 4 4, so as to pass over the upper edge of a car-seat, and then down, as at 5 5, in combinationwith the cushion d, the covering of which extends over and forms a covering for the central portion of the rod, which portion of the rod forms aframe or support for the cushion, all substantially as described.

In testimony whereof Ihave signed my name to this specification, in the presence of two subscribing wituesses, this 26th day of April, 1883.

Wlyl. BELL TAYLOR.

IVitnesses:

Guns. R. Wi nnn, G. F. Bnowu. 

